FARMINGTON — DDG Booksellers, in partnership with The Homestead Bakery, will host the national book launch of the story of the North Pond Hermit who lived alone in the woods of central Maine for 27 years.

It will be held from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Monday, March 6, at The Homestead Bakery Restaurant, 186 Broadway. The book-signing will be held afterward at DDG Booksellers, 193 Broadway.

” The Stranger in the Woods: The Story of the Last True Hermit” by Michael Finkel is an account of Christopher Knight, who lived alone in the woods not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own at the expense of his neighbors. For 27 years he had survived by stealing food and supplies from nearby camps and was finally arrested in 2013. While in jail, he refused to tell his story to anyone, except journalist Michael Finkel.

“Michael Finkel has done something magical with this profound book: He’s written a gripping modern parable about how one man did the unthinkable, walked away from life as we know it to find a sort of happiness in isolation and silence,” said Michael Paterniti, bestselling author of “The Telling Room” and “Driving Mr. Albert.”

 John Vaillant, bestselling author of “The Tiger” and “The Golden Spruce,” said, “I burned through this haunting tale in one rapt sitting. Chris Knight is an American original, a man who kept himself hidden from all other humans for more than a quarter of a century. Every life choice we make comes with a price, and Knight’s can be tallied in moments of serenity and winters survived, or in break-ins and stolen propane tanks — the final calculus, astonishing, poignant, and vexing as it is, falls to us.”

Finkel is the author of “True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa,” which was adapted into a 2015 major motion picture. He has also written for National Geographic, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.